Remember when Nintendo said it’d release its release date for the 3DS autostereoscopic portable game system on the 29th of this month? We may already have the magic number — depending on how you interpret a few Japanese words. You see, a supposed video game accessory designer by the handle "nocchisan" recently tweeted that eleven Nintendo 3DS accessories will be released on November 11th, and asked his or her followers to kindly buy them up… while purportedly remarking that the 3DS itself will arrive at the same time. While the tweets in question can certainly be read that way, and it makes a certain amount of sense foraccessories to appear at launch, our admittedly limited grasp of Japanese suggests an alternative translation: that it’s the accessories themselves (and not the 3DS) that will all arrive at the same time. There’s also the little matter of nocchisan himself, whose Twitter account has already disappeared — we have nothing actually connecting him to the accessory company except a link in his tweet.

A leading UK retailer has let slip some details on what it expects from the next-gen iPod touch — and you don’t need to look much further than the iPhone 4 for some clues.According to John Lewis, which cites, “noises we’re hearing from suppliers”, the next-gen device will be equipped for FaceTime Wi-Fi video chat, with a 5-megapixel camera, a front-facing camera, an LED flash and the capacity to capture video in HD (720p probably).With support for iOS4 (which we reckon should also reach iPad about that time) the next-gen ‘touch will also offer the same movement sensors as the iPhone 4, the retailer reckons.That’s not beyond the boundaries of good sense — after all, games and other titles designed to take advantage of the iPhone’s accelerometer and gyroscope will be hitting the App Store, so the hardware must support these features to be a peer player.This suggests to me that the device might be powered by the A4 processor Apple utilises in its iPad and iPhone 4.Given the eternally-discussed but still entirely speculative nature of the iTunes in the cloud rumor, will the iPod touch support 3G?That’s on the doubtful side, as this would imply support for VoIP, and I don’t believe Apple is quite ready to read headlines helpfully informing the company that the iPod touch is cannibalizing iPhone sales.However, should 3G support not be present, this suggests some elements of portability will exist in the cloudy iTunes service, in order that users can carry some tracks with them when their devices are offline. Spotify, MOG and others already enable this.Apple’s next music event is likely to be in time for the holiday shopping season, usually early September.